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In reply to the discussion: 109 Nobel Laureates sign a letter slamming Greenpeace. [View all]NNadir
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The organization consists entirely of childish consumer bourgeois brats with poor educations who are doing vast damage to the planet.
While they were handing out idiot rhetoric about what - in their useless and ignorant fantasies - about would happen happen in 2050 the planetary atmosphere is collapsing now at the fastest rate ever observed. I note that in the last ten years, over two trillion dollars has been squandered by humanity - two trillion dollars that might have done an awful lot of good - on so called "renewable energy" and that in 2015, the increase in concentrations of dangerous fossil fossil fuel waste in the atmosphere exceeded 3.00 ppm (3.05 ppm) for the first time in history. I have been monitoring the status of the atmosphere rather closely and reporting on this site the disturbing trends on this site. 2016 will surely be the worst year ever observed for the accumulation of new carbon dioxide.
People who put responsibility on future generations to do what they do not know how to do themselves are, or should be, beneath contempt, and again, in my view, Greenpeace is beneath contempt.
In any case, the attempt to make the failed, expensive and useless so called "renewable energy" industry viable is absurd, since it is not in fact, renewable, since it depends on the mining of increasingly rare and toxic metals, as well as the consumption of massive amounts of steel, concrete, aluminum and other materials, owing to its low energy to mass ratio. Since the assholes at Greenpeace have never, not once, opened scientific papers or science books, they remain blissfully unaware of this.
The nuclear industry saves lives.
Here is a scientific publication from 2013 - it has remained on the 12 month most read list in one of the world's most prominent scientific environmental journals continuously since publication - that describes in great detail by appeal to data, how nuclear energy saves lives: Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 48894895)
One of the co-authors of the paper is one of the most famous climate scientists in the world. He clearly, as I do, holds Greenpeace in contempt.
Since the membership of Greenpeace is completely ignorant about nuclear technology - the only thing they know about nuclear energy is that they hate it - it is disgraceful and extremely dangerous to allow these complete asses any access whatsoever to the NRC.
Right now, although they clearly don't give a shit at Greenpeace while they prattle on endlessly about 2050, about seven million people die each year from air pollution, according to the data on the 67 highest risk factors for human disease and mortality published in the prominent scientific journal Lancet in 2012. Lancet 2012, 380, 222460: For air pollution mortality figures see Table 3, page 2238 and the text on page 2240.
This amounts to 13 people killed every minute. In my view, almost none of the 390 people who died in the half hour it took me to write this post needed to die, except for the idiotic rhetoric put out by Greenpeace and the media which ignorantly cites Greenpeace's toxic crap as "environmentalist" perspectives.
The nuclear industry was built by some of the finest minds of the 20th century, many of the participants being Nobel Laureates themselves. To allow the twerps at Greenpeace to even address their work is absurd.
One suspects that you have intended your post as wit, as sarcasm. However, the statements in your post are all literally true. The current generation of the world's greatest minds should and must confront the idiocy of Greenpeace and it's appeals to fear and ignorance. I take this particular failure of wit as demonstrated in your post as typical of the type that takes Greenpeace seriously.
By working to destroy the planetary atmosphere, and by extension the world's oceans, which are rapidly acidifying, Greenpeace is working to kill not only whales, but every other living thing not only in the oceans, but far beyond them.
They think that Fukushima and Chernobyl were the worst environmental disasters of all time. However, it's not even close. The worst disaster of all time is on going at an accelerating rate. It is the destruction of the planetary atmosphere.
If the members of Greenpeace find a need to engage in their puerile, childish games - dressing up in monkey suits or whatever - they should be ignored, just as petulant children should be ignored.
The confrontation of the scientific community, as well as the media, with Greenpeace is long overdue, and is certainly welcome. Humanity needs to grow up, even if the morons at Greenpeace refuse to do so.
Have a nice holiday weekend.